Category: Feature

More Black women executives are leaving industry An unexpected byproduct of the Supreme Court decision to sharply curtail the use of affirmative action in college admissions and professional employment has […]

Structural inequities revealed By Sarah Jane Tribble | Kaiser Health News As maternal mortality skyrockets in the United States, a federal program created to improve rural maternity care has bypassed […]

Black Women for Wellness honors men from community “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.” – Martin Luther King Jr. Black Women […]

Music of blues legend lives on Oftentimes when we think of the blues, many descriptive words come to mind, perhaps melancholy, sorrowful, influential, emerging, and gloomy. In the 20th Century, […]

New report from Human Rights Watch By Noam N. Levey | KFF Health News Human Rights Watch, the nonprofit that for decades has called attention to the victims of war, […]

Report identifies a ‘homegrown problem’ By Angela Hart | California Healthline California’s homelessness crisis is a homegrown problem that is deepening amid a shortage of affordable housing and emergency shelter, […]

Taking out anger on the unhoused Homelessness has been an issue at large for many years on the streets of Los Angeles which accounts for the largest number of homeless […]

Battle rages over transgender rights The LGBTQ+ community is one that strives for a safe haven and open environment for individuals who have a variety of sexual orientations and gender […]

Major changes are underway Drivers on Crenshaw Boulevard, cannot help to note that the old, brick West Angeles Church of God in Christ has been torn down; new apartments have […]

One man’s personal story of valor By Cynthia Gibson | OW Contributing Writer One hundred and fifty-eight years ago, newly freed Blacks exhumed remains of 257 Union soldiers buried in […]